Emo

[Koskee]

I hate it... what are your opinions on this hopefully temporary fad genre of music?

[Perfect_Cheezit]

it has its place

[Spilled Milk]

meh I personally think it is whiney and stuff but there are exceptions like I've heard for an emo band death cab for cutie is pretty good..
also.it all sounds the saaaaaaaaaaaame

[Saya-biki]

emo boys scare me
but does MCR count as emo? because I would venture to say, I like most of there stuff...

[Koskee]

emo boys scare me
but does MCR count as emo? because I would venture to say, I like most of there stuff...
you get this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/koskee/boo.jpg

[Admiral Ackbar]

it has its place


Yeah in the depths of hell, or a landfill somewhere.

[Saya-biki]

huh...
interesting...
...that's a freaky picture...
like I said, the emo boy concept scares me
but I still like most of their(MCR) songs
*looks at picture*
I hope I don't become that,my sister always says I'm gonna be an emo boy after I get my heart broken by some girl, I hope that never happens
*puts Azumanga Daioh on
*looks at picture*
*shutters*
*leaves thread*

[Koskee]

Yeah in the depths of hell, or a landfill somewhere.
oh yes, or somewhere in the neighborhood around those areas

[GODofDEATH1]

as long as there are lovelorn nerds there will be emo. Emo isn't anything special, it's more like a softer version of what was punk. It's hard to find a trully good soft, emotional punk band. Today there are groups like Brand New, Saves the Day and whatever, they whine about girls. But there is some pretty poetic stuff that's not crying over a girl. At the Drive-In is a pretty good example, they were considered emo, but if you read contemporary reviews on them thet will probably call them post-punk or (insert adjective here)core.

[otaku]

emo boys scare me
but does MCR count as emo? because I would venture to say, I like most of there stuff...

emo boys are hot. end of story.

[Akimichi Choji]

What is EMO, if someone could explain to me please?

[Lupin the 3rd]

emo = Suckage!

[Admiral Ackbar]

What is EMO, if someone could explain to me please?


Whiny, crybaby, the world hates me music.

[Ninja Realist]

I like good Emo bands, like Bright Eyes.

[DarkKanti]

I don't like anything Emo. Too much complaining.

[Niner]

I just love how emo has become so mainstream when it originally started out as silly whiny teenagers versus the world. Now it's everywhere. Then again, you can say that about pretty much any form of popular music nowadays.

There are some good emo-ish songs, I will admit. But they're the exception, not the rule.

[Tremolo]

you get this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/koskee/boo.jpg

My Chemical Romance are the only good "emo" band around, mainly because they actually have songs.

I like good Emo bands, like Bright Eyes.

Not emo. Bright Eyes aren't a band, it's Connor Oberst and a constantly changing group of muscians. He's a singer-songwriter that can sometimes get a bit overwrought in a few of his songs, but I'd hardly call him emo.

[Admiral Ackbar]

All I have found is that emo bands make for good humour in Kia commercials.

[Spilled Milk]

what I don't get is when people go it's emotional music....isn't all music emotional???? I mean..even britney spears music has emotion...shallow ones but they are still emotional...

[Ninja Realist]

Not emo. Bright Eyes aren't a band, it's Connor Oberst and a constantly changing group of muscians. He's a singer-songwriter that can sometimes get a bit overwrought in a few of his songs, but I'd hardly call him emo.

Lifted was a pretty Emo album and it was one of my favorite Bright Eyes albums. So I gess you could say i like the emo stuff from Bright Eyes(and the rest).

[Admiral Ackbar]

what I don't get is when people go it's emotional music....isn't all music emotional???? I mean..even britney spears music has emotion...shallow ones but they are still emotional...


It's a specific emotion though. Something along the lines of pain (which is debatably an emotion), and sorrow, sadness and any other synonym for being depressed that I left out.

[Ninja Realist]

I don't like anything Emo. Too much complaining.

Arent you like one of AA's number one J-rock fans? J-rock can be pretty whiny. But that doesnt make J-Rock bad, neither does it make emo bad. Whiny music is okay as long as the actual music is good IMO.

If you can like J-Rock, you should try and look past emo Lyrics.

[Luggles]

If anythiing the term "Emo" has no meaning anymore than describing certain kind of kids.
All music is emotional, but generally Emo kids like to follow trends and fit in with the crowd, albiet poser-ish.

[Admiral Ackbar]

Arent you like one of AA's number one J-rock fans? J-rock can be pretty whiny. But that doesnt make J-Rock bad, neither does it make emo bad. Whiny music is okay as long as the actual music is good IMO.

If you can like J-Rock, you should try and look past emo Lyrics.


If you don't understand the lyrics then you don't know if it's emo do you? In this case, ignorance really is bliss.

[Tremolo]

Lifted was a pretty Emo album and it was one of my favorite Bright Eyes albums. So I gess you could say i like the emo stuff from Bright Eyes(and the rest).

It definitely had it's moments ("and it goes on and on and on and on AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ONNNN AND ONNN"), I just don't really equate Bright Eyes with emo - the sound is too folksy, or maybe that doesn't matter.

Ah well. No matter what kind of music he/they is, Bright Eyes is awesome as is Lifted. Out of interest which one of his two new albums do you prefer - I'm Wide Awake or Digital Ash?

[Ninja Realist]

Well i liked Digital Ash better as im more of a fan of his electronish stuff than his acoustic stuff. Dont get me wrong, i like both, but the acoustic stuff feels a little contrived sometimes.(emphasis on little)

[Tremolo]

Well i liked Digital Ash better as im more of a fan of his electronish stuff than his acoustic stuff. Dont get me wrong, i like both, but the acoustic stuff feels a little contrived sometimes.(emphasis on little)

Digital Ash is also my favourite - it's an absolutely gorgeous album with not a bad track on it (although Theme From Pinata is a bit draggy). I'm Wide Awake has some fantastic songs on it (At the Bottom of Everything, First Day of My Life, Poison Oak, Road to Joy), but overall it's not as good as his other works.

[Spilled Milk]

I don't like anything Emo. Too much complaining.

Arent you like one of AA's number one J-rock fans? J-rock can be pretty whiny. But that doesnt make J-Rock bad, neither does it make emo bad. Whiny music is okay as long as the actual music is good IMO.

If you can like J-Rock, you should try and look past emo Lyrics.

Realist..I suggest you look up the translation to a song called Zomboid...by dir en grey...heeheehee....have fun n_n http://www.crysania.com/tattered/lyrics_Kisou.html

[Ninja Realist]

Was that supposed to gross me out or something?

It really wasnt at all. But the words the translatpr uses are pretty vulgar. The word goo always grosses me out. To describe that i would have used liquid, or better yet just have used the word itself. I mean I think semen is a pretty word, but goo is just a gross word.

By the way your link was broken so i had to use a different translation.

By the way I read some of the other lyrics and some of the others were kind of emo.

[Spilled Milk]

oops it was broken...but ain't that just the cutest kyo! OMG! *goes fangirl crazy*
and it wasn't suposed to gross you out just show you that it's not emo ish...some of it is but the majority isn't just like almost every group has a song like that. and reading dir en grey's lyrics IS fun! :D

[Akuhei]

Alot of people go WAY too far in their definition of emo and bring it to encompass all kinds of music they don't like. I once had a friend tell me that he didn't like Hybrid Rainbow and that The Pillows were too emo for him. I then proceeded to shove a street light down his throat. I'm not really a big fan of emo or punk, some of it i might listen to if i'm really bored, but generally i have better stuff to listen to.

[Spilled Milk]

LMFAO....thats wonderful naota. I once had a friend tell me that he didn't like Hybrid Rainbow and that The Pillows were too emo for him. I then proceeded to shove a street light down his throat. .

I would do the same..

[Neon]

To be a punk or not to be a punk that is not really the question here.

My point is that emo is good in a sense, for everything that happens there is an opposite to it in the universe. You know how some people go "I like and I don't like" everything has a polar opposite so let emo live, it exist for some reason. But I really have not found the style that counters emo?

Ignore me I am just crazy.

[Ninja Realist]

I really have not found the style that counters emo?



Twee Pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twee_pop)

[deosvx]

EMO is the best kind of music ever! Better than country.

I like to be difficult.

[shadowflamedx]

Would The Cure count as emo?

[Spilled Milk]

I dunno I haven't heard much of them but I wouldn't think of them as Emo.
the cure is an eighties group right?? am I thinkingof the right band??

[Ninja Realist]

I dunno I haven't heard much of them but I wouldn't think of them as Emo.
the cure is an eighties group right?? am I thinkingof the right band??

WHAT? Ok, the cure had a nothing to with emo, thats right. It was the band that made Goth Famous, that invented Goth as a musical Genre and was also the inspiration for modern J-Rock.

The Cure:http://www.the-cure.it/images/cure-xmas.jpg


J-Rock:http://www.isound.com/pics/dir_en_grey.jpg


See the resemblance?(i know they have different hair colors, but look at the trenchcoats)

[Admiral Ackbar]

but the cure don't look androgenous.

[Koskee]

but the cure don't look androgenous.
they do to me... >.>

[Admiral Ackbar]

That's not a good picture but I can tell the gender of all of them.

Dir en Grey on the other hand only the guy on the left looks remotely male.

[Roark]

Would The Cure count as emo?
The Cure is Darkwave or pre-goth, not emo.

[Spilled Milk]

but the cure don't look androgenous.

The cure also isn't insanely HOT!

[xbojanglesx]

Emo is a subgenre of Punk(i'm saying this loosely).

'nuff said.

you can like it, or dislike it.

[cindydear]

have any of you actually listened to the lyrics? they're about real things going on in our world that are actually happening to people! but i guess none of you would know about anything with your 'perfect' lives. im not saying that all of you have perfect lives or whatever but if you actually listened to the lyrics or looked them up it may be possible that you could have something in common with them. and if you think it's so terrible then just DONT LISTEN TO IT! its not that difficult to understand!
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[Javer]

have any of you actually listened to the lyrics? they're about real things going on in our world that are actually happening to people!

Yes, they are. Spoiled suburbian kids with a rebellious bent actually do think they know what suffering is. So it shall be, so it has always been.

[FONT="Verdana"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]but i guess none of you would know about anything with your 'perfect' lives. im not saying that all of you have perfect lives or whatever . . .

Really?

Are you sure you're not?

[FONT="Verdana"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]but if you actually listened to the lyrics or looked them up it may be possible that you could have something in common with them. and if you think it's so terrible then just DONT LISTEN TO IT! its not that difficult to understand!

Miss, have you considered that the lyrics are part or all of why some people have an aversion to the music? Personally, I've got no problems with Ray Toro's guitar work. I actually kind of like it. It's when he and that Gerard dude start up with the bleeding-heart lyrics (and I don't mean in the radical sense -- I'm pretty sure at some point they've literally described a bleeding heart) that I stop listening.

But, okay, have it your way. Give me a minute, I'll go look up some of those lyrics like you said.

"Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
Tonight."

That was "Breaking the Habit", by Linkin Park. And you don't find that at all melodramatic?

In short, yeah, we know what it's about. Yeah, I'm willing to bet that at some point we've all felt those things -- rejection, hurt, embarrassment, rage. But they're a part of life, they're something virtually everyone has to deal with. Me, I don't have a problem with expressing those feelings in music, but acting as if it's original to is what bothers me. Bottom line? Emo is nothing new.

And telling me just not to listen to something if I don't like it -- that's kind of like me saying if you don't like Goatse, don't go there. I already don't listen to it. But I at least owe you, a fan, an explanation as to why.

EDIT:

Is your sig a 50 Cent lyric? >_>;;

[Milkymagic]

have any of you actually listened to the lyrics? they're about real things going on in our world that are actually happening to people! but i guess none of you would know about anything with your 'perfect' lives. im not saying that all of you have perfect lives or whatever but if you actually listened to the lyrics or looked them up it may be possible that you could have something in common with them. and if you think it's so terrible then just DONT LISTEN TO IT! its not that difficult to understand!
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My Viewpoint on Music:

I just listen to music if it sounds good, if there's nothing musically driving me, the lyrics just fade into the background and then I suddenly lose interest. Even some old dude on the street for the promise of a dollar could keep my interest if he had a sweet guitar hook to go with his awesomely rustic voice, I could dig that.

Lyrics are capable of connecting with most people, but musicians don't always make great philosophers, as music is still an industry of entertainment first and foremost. But, there are some great messages or artistic themes to be had, and an artist usually has a reason for writing his or her own matieral (their life, their feelings, or even their need for money are factors). It's just a matter of how strongly you take the message, and how enjoyable their music was to your ears. Trying to measure the sincerity of someone's work is almost not worth anyone's time, as there is no guaranteed indicator for who a true artist is from a fake. Of course, I know the difference between a Milli Vanilli and a Tom Petty any day of the week, but that comment was aimed at the majority of artists who make their music with an expressed passion for it.

So just enjoy the freaking music and let it inspire you first and foremost, I'm not afraid to tell someone I'm a fan of certain J-Pop artists, and that's because I choose my music and enjoy it my way. Just don't attack other people's tastes because they can't listen to something the same way you do.

Unless of course you like 50 Cent and G-G-G-G-Uniiiit!

[kyubichan]

have any of you actually listened to the lyrics? they're about real things going on in our world that are actually happening to people! but i guess none of you would know about anything with your 'perfect' lives. im not saying that all of you have perfect lives or whatever but if you actually listened to the lyrics or looked them up it may be possible that you could have something in common with them. and if you think it's so terrible then just DONT LISTEN TO IT! its not that difficult to understand!
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It is interesting to note that:

a. You have only one post and that is in this thread.
b. You are speaking to ghosts.
c. You have duped three of us, so far, into increasing our post counts needlessly.
d. Two years have passed, and emo is still here *shudders*

[Mana]

As taken from cindydear's profile:

*yes* im the kind of person that will go through the agony of registering for a site they know nothing about just to rant onceat someone who mkes fun of their favorite kind of music then never goes on the site again *yes* this is one of those times

Although I'm not quite sure what "onceat" means, I'm guessing she's not coming back. This shows all the signs of a closable thread. Who am I to stop it?